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More cracks found in shuttle external tankCape Canaveral, Fla. (UPI) Nov 10, 2010 Two cracks discovered in space shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank could jeopardize the orbiter's planned final launch set for Nov. 30, officials said. Engineers beginning repair work on a crack in the tank's foam insulating layer Wednesday morning discovered the new cracks on the aluminum body of the tank. NASA officials say they are evaluating the cracks to determine how to repair them as the orbiter remains on its launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. "This i ... read more |
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  NASA NIA To Sponsor Student Planetary Rover Challenge Few NASA projects in recent years have captured the public's attention like the Mars rovers. Now researchers are hoping the chance to design a future rover may capture university students' interest. ... more | .. |
  SAS Announces Inaugural Commercial Human Spaceflight Technical Forum Special Aerospace Services will host its first Commercial Human Spaceflight Technical Forum on January 12-14. The forum is being held in Boulder, Colorado, and will present a focused and conce ... more | .. |
  Tiangong Space Lab Spurs China Space PR Blitz In 2011, China will launch Tiangong 1, its first space laboratory. The flight of Tiangong has been openly discussed for years, and we have even seen video of the actual spacecraft being assembled. ... more | .. |
  Poking An Alien Pod Tracy Collier, an employee at Home Technologies in City Center at Oyster Point, Newport News, Virginia, was walking her employer's Westie around the Center's manmade lake when she saw a large, myste ... more |
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  Cassini To Resume Nominal Operations Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., expect the Cassini spacecraft will resume normal operations on Nov. 24. They have traced the steps taken by an onboard computer ... more | .. |
 NASA begins examination of Discovery NASA says its engineers are investigating the fuel leak that delayed and then canceled last week's launch of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery. ... more | .. |
 China leads Asian thrust in research: UN Asia, led by China, is fast challenging America, Europe and Japan in spending on scientific research and development but still lags on key criteria of inventiveness, according to a UN report to be published on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Sensor On Mars Rover To Measure Radiation Environment About eight months before the NASA rover Curiosity touches down on Mars in August 2012, the mission's science measurements will begin much closer to Earth. The Mars Science Laboratory mission' ... more |
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APEC host Japan shows high-tech face amid rare earths fears As it hosts an Asia-Pacific summit, Japan is showing off robots, green cars and space probes to prove its high-tech credentials despite slow growth and threats to crucial rare earth supplies. ... more | .. |
  U.K. astronomers see 'snooker' star system U.K. astronomers say a recently discovered star system looks like, and may have once behaved like, a game of snooker or billiards. ... more | .. |
  Space Travel Is Bad On The Bones Long-duration spaceflight may have a long-term negative impact on bone health, according to research presented this week at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Scientific Meeting in Atlanta. ... more | .. |
 Tank leak delays Discovery launch until end November A hydrogen leak forced NASA to announce its fifth delay Friday to the space shuttle Discovery's final mission to the International Space Station, this time until the end of November. ... more |
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  SpaceShipTwo designer Rutan retiring Aerospace designer Burt Rutan, the man behind the SpaceShipTwo spacecraft destined to take tourists to space, has announced his retirement in California. ... more | .. |
  Vega P80 First Stage Is Rolled Out To The Spaceport's Vega Launch Facility A representative P80 first stage for Vega is now on the launch pad in French Guiana, marking a milestone in preparations for next year's introduction of this lightweight vehicle, which will be opera ... more | .. |
 Saudi Arabia, Ukraine To Hold Joint Space Explorations Saudi Arabia and Ukraine have signed an agreement to cooperate in peaceful space exploration, the website of the Space Agency of Ukraine said on Saturday. The agreement was signed between Pres ... more | .. |
  The GEO Graveyard May Not Be Permanent Since the 1970s, a number of geostationary satellites have been placed in the so called "graveyard orbit," an orbit just above the GEO altitude, roughly 100 to 300 km. The sole purpose of this "buri ... more |
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 China Announces Success Of Chang'e-2 Lunar Probe Mission Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Monday unveiled an image of the moon's Sinus Iridum, or Bay of Rainbows, photographed by Chang'e-2, marking the success of China's second lunar probe mission. Premie ... more | .. |
 Fifth Ariane 5 Ready To Receive Its Satellite Payloads The Ariane 5 for Arianespace's fifth heavy-lift mission of 2010 has moved to the Final Assembly Building at the Spaceport in French Guiana, where it will be fitted with a dual-passenger payload of t ... more | .. |
 Unique Insurance Products For NASA Commercial Crew Initiative Developed Space Partnership International ("SPI") has announced that it is offering a suite of space insurance products to support NASA's Commercial Crew Development ("CCDev") Initiative, the initiative, whic ... more | .. |
  Getting To Know The Sun Advances Fusion Research Researchers at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have successfully used Coaxial Helicity Injection (CHI) to generate plasma current and couple it to a conventional current generation method at ... more |
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 The Secrets Of Ancient Martian and Terrestrial Atmospheres Chemists at UC San Diego have uncovered a new chemical reaction on tiny particulates in the atmosphere that could allow scientists to gain a glimpse from ancient rocks of what the atmospheres of the ... more | .. |
 Bringing a Bit of Mars Back Home If there is evidence of life on Mars, it will be found in the planet's rocks. And as most scientists who study Mars will tell you, the best way to learn about martian rocks is to bring a few back to ... more | .. |
 Full Week Of Driving Past Set Of Craters It has been a week of driving for Opportunity. She drove on five of the last seven sols and covered over 400 meters (1,312 feet). As the rover makes her way toward Endeavour crater, she is taking a ... more | .. |
 Taming Thermonuclear Plasma With A Snowflake Physicists working on the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX) at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory are now one step closer to solving one of the grand challenges of magnetic fusion rese ... more |
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